Strategic Capabilities and Their Relationship with Strategic Performance: A descriptive and analytical study of private universities and colleges in Anbar Governorate
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This research aims to understand the role of strategic capabilities) administrative capabilities, technological capabilities, marketing capabilities, and research and development capabilities) in achieving strategic performance in its various dimensions: the financial perspective, the stakeholders' perspective, the internal processes perspective, the learning and research perspective, the learning and development perspective, and the institutional image perspective, The descriptive-analytical method was adopted to present, analyze, and interpret the research information,This method helps in collecting a large amount of research data and information related to the research problem. The study was conducted in private universities and colleges in Al-Anbar Governorate. It was applied to a population consisting of 90 individuals from top and middle management, including university presidents, vice presidents, deans, assistant deans, department heads, and division managers. The researcher relied on the questionnaire as the main tool for collecting data and information. To analyze the data, a set of statistical methods was used including: the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, Cronbach's alpha, Pearson correlation coefficient, simple regression, and multiple regression),The collected data were analyzed and processed using SPSS (Version 28) and AMOS (Version 28). The researcher reached a set of findings that were generally consistent with the research hypotheses. Among these findings was the existence of statistically significant correlations between the variable of strategic capabilities—with its sub-dimensions—and the variable of strategic performance. In addition, there was a statistically significant positive impact of strategic capabilities, in all their dimensions, on strategic performance in private universities and colleges in Al-Anbar Governorate,"The study presented a set of recommendations, the most important of which is that the administrations of the surveyed universities and colleges should increase their attention to strategic capabilities and work to preserve them, given their significant role in the success of their strategies.
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